Given the understandable confusion, we won't stop underlining the fact that Valentino Rossi: The Game is not a spin-off game dedicated only to "The Doctor", it's actually the fully-fledged 2016 main entry into the annual MotoGP series, while also focusing on content based around the Italian rider.
The game will launch on PS4, Xbox One and PC on June 16, and after announcing a bunch of new features such as rallies, studio Milestone and publisher Bandai Namco have made a couple of announcements: digital pre-orders are already available on PSN and the Historic Trailer below offers some more insight into the main MotoGP mode.
And there's one more thing that links the two announcements: those who pre-order the game before launch can get additional historic events that will also be released on day one for €3.99:
Year | Circuit | Riders
1997 Brno : Kazuto Sakata, Youichi Ui, Jorge Martinez, Masaki Tokudome
1999 Welkom : Tohru Ukawa, Shinya Nakano
2001 Cataluña: Carlos Checa, Max Biaggi, Noriyuki Haga, Loris Capirossi, Tohru Ukawa
2001 Estoril: Max Biaggi, Loris Capirossi
2003 Brno: Sete Gibernau
2005 Losail: Marco Melandri
2006 Sepang: Loris Capirossi
2007 Assen: Casey Stoner
2009 Sachsenring: Jorge Lorenzo
2010 Losail: Jorge Lorenzo, Andrea Dovizioso